Shazam was also amazing. Few darker moments but something I would let my kid watch.

“It’s better than the theatrical cut.” is damning with faint praise.

Snyder’s real problem is he fundamentally doesn’t understand the characters or the subject matter in his films. He didn’t understand the point of Rorschach (not a hero) or the watchmen (a story expressly against the idea of heroes). He doesn’t understand Superman (the pure ideal), Batman (a character who wants…

(James Gunn, aside, maybe but that seemed more Disney than Marvel)

Growing up, DC heroes always seemed closer to pure heroes than, say, the X-Men who always came off as real people with real problems/dramas compounded by superpowers. Superman as the ideal of courage and self-sacrifice for the good of humanity, Batman as the silent avenger working behind the scenes to stop crime,…

I rewatched AoU for WandaVision and it is true that it is better than I remember it being. But I remember it being pretty awful. I think people take the fact that it wasn’t actually a flaming trash heap to claim it was a good movie. And it really wasn’t. Some really great bits were there (James Spader was perfect as…

It's also well known that people who are abusive to animals (and abandonment is abusive) are often on that well worn path to abusing people. I cannot and will not be friends with those who abuse animals because of it. 

I had to end a “best friend” friendship when I realized that she was popping xanax after drinking a couple of glasses of wine and DROVE HOME, WITH HER KID. We had met up with our kids at the bowling alley, and I had offered to pay. I admit that I looked past her issues with xanax, but I didn’t realize she was drinking…

Stuff like this happens because these schools are essentially above the law, by which I mean the law in MO and other states exempts them from any kind of real oversight by the state:

Brandy’s advice here is good. Loyalty for its own sake is not a virtue. 

When I arrived at college as an ex-evangelical in the process of converting to Catholicism, my first thought was to join the Interfaith Council bc religious dialogue fascinates me. Fortunately I met a Jewish guy who immediately put me off joining IFC because - wait for it - the only people in IFC were Protestants.…

What’s the quote again? “I don’t mind paying taxes. With them I buy into society.”

I mean, the community is super misogynistic already, combined with gamers who tend to not have the best social skills. It’s just a combustible situation ready to explode.

The problem with your statement is the assumption that people can continue to work into old age instead of getting laid off first and unable to find another job because of age discrimination.

Always appropriate to remind people: Anyone who does not want to have children... and DOES NOT have children should be applauded.

Also a fun time to remind everyone that we’ve never actually seen a generation retire with the 401k system rather than pensions, and the general assumption is that it’s going to go terribly.

This woman is a fucking idiot.

It’s also that the game is just harder for liberals.

I am not a good person by any stretch of the imagination. But the depths to which these people will sink to further their disgusting agendas and fleece the lumpen is still often astounding to me. The fact that trump (a person who can’t string together words in an intelligible way or express a coherent thought) is god-k…